Georgian State Security Service prevents cyberattack on President's Administration website
The body added additional investigation was ongoing to inspect other vulnerabilities of the website, identify the offenders and take further legal action. Photo: State Security Service press office
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The Georgian State Security Service on Friday said it had prevented a cyberattack on the official website of the Administration of the country’s President.
The Service said the Cybersecurity Centre of the Operational and Technical Agency had “promptly” detected the attack and issued “emergency response measures” leading to prevention of the attack and allowing the website to continue operation.
The body added additional investigation was ongoing to inspect other vulnerabilities of the website, identify the offenders and take further legal action.
The Georgian parliament is hearing a bill by the Ministry of Internal Affairs designed to include stricter criminal punishment for cyber crimes including hacking for financial gain and creation of fake data.
Police have detained five individuals for unauthorized access to computer systems and fraud in Tbilisi, Gori and the western municipality of Tsalenjikha.
Georgian police have detained an Indian citizen for illegally accessing computer systems, extraction and misuse of computer data and theft. The crime is punishable by three to five years in prison.
Two individuals have been sentenced to seven years and six months in prison by Tbilisi City Court on charges of money laundering, illegal access to computer systems and theft.
Grigol Liluashvili, the Head of the State Security Service of Georgia, and Catherine De Bolle, the Executive Director of Europol, the European Union’s law enforcement agency, on Wednesday signed a deal on exchange and protection of secret information.